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I just emailed my first question to the CentOS list. I've been lurking for a few months. Hopefully someone will answer instead of yelling at me for asking something stupid.
I reinstalled the OS. Was a little worried about disk druid and getting the partitions back in the same structure (without erasing the data on the big RAID5 volume!) But it seems like it worked out okay. Back at WHQ now and I can SSH in and see all the data. So now I'm back to where I was before yesterday. :-(
Now to try again.
Well my DNS setup is now completely FUBAR. Shit shit shit. I'm thinking about going to the data center and just reinstalling the OS, since I don't know how to gracefully back out of the mess I've made.
Google is about to roll out a major update to its' search algorithm. You can get a peak at the new system here. Are you still number n?
I have really been splitting my time lately between a bunch of different projects and it is starting to make me a little crazy. Luckily today I finally was able to get the time and the motivation to dive back into the languishing server project. I am at least a month behind, so any claims of progress should probably be taken with a grain of salt, but I am happy to have the ball rolling again.
DNS is just not something I am eager to be really familiar with. But without DNS you can't really do anything on the web unless you want people to always use an IP address instead of a regular domain name. In any case, I ended up installing djbdns instead of the more common BIND. I like the idea of just "yum install"ing whatever the standard thing is (BIND) but djbdns is highly recommended from several sources I trust and more importantly, I was able to find much better setup docs, especially for the real small scale 2 DNS servers on one server configuration that I want to run.
I think I have it installed correctly. And I have my domain name servers registered (ns1.datamantic.com and ns2.datamantic.com). And I have the two additional IP addresses bound to my server for each of those DNS servers. Now it will take 24 hours or so for those nameservers to become active and then tomorrow I can try to setup a zone file to direct actual domain names to the new server.
Apache and MySQL and PHP are already set up. You can see the web server here. Once I get DNS resolving I will pretty much be back on familiar ground and can start moving domains over and building some new tools.
Nice .pdf chart of U.S. frequency allocation.
Looks like Disney is set to buy Pixar in a stock swap worth $7 billion. That will net teh Steve $3.5 billion and make him the largest Disney shareholder. This has been a rumor for a while now, so it's not a huge shock, but it's still a pretty big deal. I guess final word will come tomorrow.
It is looking like you can, with a little bit of effort, run OS X 10.4.3 on standard x86 PC hardware. I don't think this is a problem for Apple. Perhaps just the opposite.
Google Talk can now interact with any Jabber server. This should be a good thing, and should seriously undermine the power of the closed IM networks. But as I've learned the hard way by getting excited about open standards in the past - including Jabber - it's really difficult to predict . Maybe AOL and MSN just have too much of a head start. Still, having Google Talk as part of the Jabber universe (the XMPP universe, to be technical) can only be a good thing.
I'm always changing the font size on web pages while I surf (command shift + to increase, and command - to decrease on OS X,) but why can't I save these settings in Safari for certain domains? That would be handy.